Vibrant and delicious with lucid mulberry tones & orange tinges. Balsamic strawberry & lifted red fruits with savoury leather and cherry and raspberry. Structured and yet delicately firm with sweet length and exotic aromatics. Giovanni was quite rightly awarded a Gambero Rose Tre Bicchieri for the 2018, placing it in their top 26 wines from the island.
The most important wine of the estate is the red Faro DOC – a blend of 60% Nerello Mascalese, 30% Nerello Cappuccio & 10% Nocera – with around 580 cases produced. After wild yeast ferment with skin contact of about 20 days the wine ages in large oak and concrete for 18 to 24 months dependent on the vintage. The 2018 is classic in frame – open and elegant with only 12.5% alcohol. vibrant and delicious.
